With his book The Damned Utd, David Peace reinvented both the novel and the art of football writing. He discusses his eagerly awaited new book about the legendary Liverpool manager

Liverpool manager Bill Shankly was football’s last old-school boss. In the
days before agents, foreign players, sponsorship and endorsements worth
millions, the ex-miner, who died in 1981, took the club from the second
division to the pinnacle of world football. David Peace – author of the Red
Riding quartet, GB84 and The Damned Utd – has brought him back
to life in Red or Dead, an epic, fictionalised retelling of Shankly’s
reign. His compelling account of the 1971 FA Cup Final between Liverpool and
Arsenal is extracted below, while Richard Lloyd Parry talks to him in his
adopted home town of Tokyo.